City and Colour's Dallas Green wanted to bring attention to the issue of violence against women, and decided to drop an unreleased track — "Nowhere, Texas" — to the masses as a way of providing awareness.
Green originally recorded the track during sessions for the 2013 album, The Hurry and the Harm, but held on to it until Friday. The cut was inspired by the 2011 film, Texas Killing Fields.
"I've held on to it all this time and chosen to release it as a way to bring attention to something around us everyday: violence against women," Green told AltPress. "I wrote the song after watching a movie, 'Texas Killing Fields.' I couldn't shake the real story of a lonely road that became the final resting place of missing women. This song tells that story - but sadly this road does not stand alone. Places like this are everywhere."
The lyrics paint a plain picture of the murders that have happened for several decades.
"Collette's body was discovered / In November of 1971," Green sings. "Then one after the another / Victims were found beneath the desert sun."
The chorus is as follows:
Hunting in the killing fields
Small-town country boys do their worst
No one knows how far it goes
It seems that the bayou has become a world of hurt
Green released the song in conjunction with the 25th anniversary of the Montreal Massacre and Canada's National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women.
All proceeds will go to YWCA of Canada's Rose Campaign.
NOWHERE, TEXAS - buy here: https://t.co/TJRnUpPozc All profits worldwide will be donated to @YWCA_Canada #rosecampaign pic.twitter.com/6zC9WvCpeW
— Dallas Green (@cityandcolour) December 5, 2014
